Survival of the Fittest?

Qantas, Jetstar, Air New Zealand and others battle it out in Australia and New Zealand.

When Charles Darwin wrote that “it is not thestrongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change,” he could not have been thinking about the airline industry. Yet the liberalized and deregulated Australian and New Zealand aviation markets have become an enormous petri dish in which change is constant and survival will belong to those best adapted to their constantly evolving local environment.
In the dominant corner ...